July 2010
51 posts
“Although no generation lacks warts, our 20-somethings are terrific. We worry...”
– Gail Collins (via The New York Times)
“Most of them unpaid” is correct. But yes, I’m really proud of my generation.
(via noelduan)
Midori, sans liqueur.: Friends! Boston! Yess. →
More and more, being in Boston feels like being home - The people, the places, the life.
Ugh, tell me about it. I caught myself missing it in a sick sick way last week. Could it be growing on me?
“You can’t make any decisions because you don’t know what you want....”
I had a dream about a terrible airline
Ever since I started listening to air traffic control to fall asleep (via the LiveATC app on my phone) instead of NPR or something, all my dreams have involved air travel in some sense.
Last night I had a dream about having to fly on a particularly repugnant (fictional) airline because they were some amount cheaper than my usual favorites. I can’t remember the name of it but it was...
Summer goals checklist, cont'd:
Redux from here.
• Read books: Started a few nonfiction books based on real peoples’ lives. Can’t finish them, find their lives too boring. I feel like I’ve studied enough successful people at this point (probably wrong) and don’t really feel that their definition of success matches my own, so I’d rather find success my own way than try to emulate.
• Work hard,...
Dear Google Developer… Its Time To Leave Your Job →
“We believe the fat world of HTML & javascript isn’t right for mobile, we want to make OSs, protocols, devices and apps that can be used across the whole world, not just by upper-middle class westerners who have broad 3G deployments and money to buy $400 devices.”
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Mac Pro shopping list
Things to buy your Mac Pro to show it you truly love it (and things I hope to buy mine once Apple releases it and I actually own it):
-MCE Tech SATA Blu-ray burner - Final Cut Pro can burn Blu-rays direct now. Alll riiiiight.
-Other World Computing Mercury SSD (SandForce drive) - boot drive!
-Universal Audio UAD-2 PCI DSP card - all of Karmacoda’s albums are mixed and mastered in the...
“I’m just ready to be something other than someone’s intern.”
– Whitney Port (via jessicachu)
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“Our cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems of interconnected,...”
– william j mitchell, http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20100614/william-j-mitchell-dies-at-65 (via ellicepark)
“It’s kinda the same idea as facebook, with functionality more like Twitter, but...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Dan Ariely on online dating →
“ It turns out, women really care about men’s height. I’m 5’9”, if I wanted to be as attractive as somebody who’s 5’10”, right, another inch? I would have to make about $35-40,000 more a year. That’s a lot of money for one inch.”
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Dear Coke Talk: On bearing arms. →
Do you think America’s obsession with guns is more of a mental health issue (ie little dick syndrome or some other syndrome you deem fitting), than a question of freedom? Or is it just about the money?
(apologies, but this retarded article - …
Amen to Coke Talk on this one. Once you hold a gun and fire it you realize that it’s an implement that can be learned and used properly,...
Odd patterns
Somehow whenever I’m on a plane with wifi access I feel super motivated to advance my career so I read a bunch of stuff, poke around on LinkedIn at the people I know and the people they know, and draft a bunch of emails which I don’t actually send but help me to get a clear idea of what I want.
I have ended up in Germany during both of the most recent World Cups (2006 and 2010), for...
